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Caren Levy shares her reflections as a follow-up to the conference, Thinking Across Boundaries: Re-Imagining Planning in the Urban Global South as part of The Bartlett Development Planning Unit 60 year anniversary. Read more

If there’s hope for democracy in America, it’s certainly nowhere to be found in DC. But we the people might be surprised to find that there’s still a bit of it left in a place many of us aren’t expecting to find it: city hall. Read more

Out of all the words in Silicon Valley’s lexicon, “disrupt” holds a special place. Companies are 'disrupting' inefficient market practices, and though citizen engagement applications have been garnering less attention than some of their more profitable counterparts, they’re gaining traction nonetheless. Read more

Facing a shortfall of £156 million over the next three years, the City of Liverpool in the UK has created an online budget simulator, asking citizens and interested parties to adjust the City's spending and find the necessary savings. Read more

The concept behind Argentina’s New Online Political Party - Partido de la Red - is remarkably simple. They have developed an app that lets people vote directly on each bill that is proposed in the city legislature. But could it work? Read more

Our friends at Shareable recently published Policies for Shareable Cities - a report on how urban leaders can encourage a shareable economy through policy changes. We got the chance to put a few questions to Shareable co-founder and report co-author Neal Gorenflo. Read more